#very lukewarm

[wakraya]

Room temperature take; OOT Zelda is transmasc

This is the one with Shiek, right?

#Very Lukewarm #You're right I mean but like #Yeah X3 #TLOZ #ask

[saturdaysky]

a little morning pick-me-up

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A morning on the way to Baldur's Gate. The party booked themselves into an inn and enjoyed real beds, hot baths, and privacy for the first time since the Nautiloid.

Gale and Mayhew shared a room, of course. They were filled with the relief of surviving the shadows and the glow of finally getting together, so their private room was probably a blessing for the whole party, honestly.

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This was some ascended anatomy practice! Referenced some great stock from @null-entity.

#some people speed run the galemance but i played it as the world's longest slow burn #act 1 was fuuull of uneven feelings and perceived unrequited feelings and slow-building respect #mayhew was immediately down bad & suffering after the weave scene. Plus Gale's lukewarm reaction to flirting felt like people-pleasing #gale slowly emerged from his depression hole much later and only then caught real feelings - but the orb put paid to acting on them #so in my game they simply had a very loaded laden-with-unspoken-feelings friendship until near the end of act 2 #they got like one (1) week of happiness before the horrors of act 3 hit. starting with Mayhew getting unwillingly astral tadpole'd #it's tragic and i love it #also: chubby gale. tumblr do you see my vision #mayhew sees my vision #please also appreciate mayhew's bed head and the too-big-for-gnomes dishware. i chuckled about those #my art #mayhew #gale dekarios #gnome tav #gale x tav #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

[canisalbus]

you mentioned your nsfw twitter is locked (i dont really use twitter) does that mean its private for only ppl you know or like to verify 18+?

It means you can't view the posts before you've sent a follow request and I've manually accepted it.

The bar is low, I usually just take a cursory glance at your bio to check you're not underage or giving me Major Bad Vibes.

I know it's the internet and I can't expect to fully control who gets to see this stuff, but I like to think it at least keeps it somewhat contained from spilling outside of it's intended audience.

#answered #ensiasilverash #there isn't anything scandalous in there my spice is very mild #I know some members of my extended family have found out about my main account which I already don't love #I don't want them looking at my lukewarm gay furry smut as well

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

1: Magic is a Metaphor < 2: Morgana is a Lesbian < 3: Merlin is Gay < 4: Arthur is Bi

Do you remember when you were bullied in middle school? Because if you're reading this, I think it's fair to assume that you were. And your parents would say to you, 'that boy is just being mean to you because he likes you'. That's what this is.

Arthur is just so repressed. He has really bad daddy issues, and he doesn't know how to express his emotions, and he's really uncomfortable with physical intimacy, especially with other men, especially with Merlin. And this isn't me trying to psychoanalyse away his heterosexuality. It is a very evident part of his character.

And another big part of his character is that he has inherited all of these bigoted ideas about magic from his father that he has to work to overcome. Because, of course, Arthur himself is born of magic, but his dad is so ashamed of it that he hides the true circumstances of his birth from Arthur. Honestly, I don't know exactly how that would fit into this whole metaphor. I do have a half-formed theory that it could be interpreted as an allegory for intersex identity, I know that a lot of people headcanon Arthur as trans, so idk there could be something there. But regardless, it is only through his relationship with Merlin that he is able to overcome this magicphobia, because he realises: how could it be wrong when everything about Merlin is so right. And I just feel like there's a metaphor in there somewhere.

Of course, I have to mention this iconic quote from the audio commentary of the final episode: when the executive producer refers to Arthur taking off his royal seal to give back to Guinevere as passing over "the last vestige of his heterosexu- oh sorry, I mean his marriage." So, they knew exactly what they were doing.

I also thought I would just draw your attention to the fact that at one point Arthur says, "I only care about my men, they're more than friends, more than brothers." Now, I think we can all agree that out of context, that is a very gay thing to say, and yet somehow the context is even gayer, because Arthur is pretending to be talking about the Knights of the Round Table, but he's actually talking about Merlin, how Merlin is the only person he cares about, more than a friend. And then Merlin responds, "I understand. I wish I didn't, but I do." It's barely subtext at that point. This of course, brings me to my final argument:

Arthur risked his life to save Merlin at least eight times. It could be more than that, I genuinely lost count. And you have to keep in mind that Arthur is the King of Camelot and he doesn't have any heirs. It is quite important that he stays alive. And yet anytime that Merlin is in the slightest bit of danger, he will just drop everything to protect him.

And it's really only in those moments where he's faced with the thought of losing Merlin that he shows him genuine emotion. Such as in this scene (which was cut out of 4x02 purely because it was too gay) where Arthur is planning to sacrifice himself to protect Merlin, again, and he gives Merlin his mother's sigil, the only thing he has left of his dead mum and he wants Merlin to have it as something to remember him by. Also, apparently in medieval times giving someone your family crest was basically a marriage proposal, so that's pretty gay.

You know what else is pretty gay? Telepathically communicating with Merlin and then immediately leaving Gwen in the middle of an active war. This is literally the last time that Arthur and Gwen ever see each other. Poor Gwen.

In conclusion, Merlin is the story of gay sorcerers and bisexual knights getting into love triangles. Everyone in this show is queer and you cannot tell me otherwise.

#because I realise this is the first post you'll see on the dash: this is all taken directly from a tiktok I made over a year ago #my thoughts on this point especially have developed a bit since then. and this is written for a more entry-level tiktok audience #so it's very lukewarm takes to my fellow soldiers in the trenches #but I'm not expecting this to get much notice and idc/idk how to articulate my thoughts better so just take it for what it is #arthur pendragon #merthur #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin meta #the magic of metaphor

[minutestildawn]

Man behind the slaughter?? More like uh. Erm.

#william afton #fnaf movie #fnaf fanart #fnaf #the man behind the slaughter is a little silly today #do u think he prefers his soup lukewarm or hot enough to peel the skin off his mouth this is a very important question #this was supposed to be painting practice but i ended up going off track #Matthew lillard the man you are #Matthew lillard #springtrap #five nights at freddy's #fivenightsatfreddysfanart

[starful-emporium]

ngl people shipping any of the bad kids is so weird to me. in my head they're all siblings

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #the bad kids #hot take? #maybe?? #at the very least lukewarm

[somecleverreference]

Bonus parallels since I’m too lazy to edit the pic:

utilizes a lot of blood-and-gore practical effects

ritualistic corpse display to Prove A Point

toes the line between very serious and very Camp

genderbent supporting male characters

opening credits are Red

runs on a network with a three-letter name ending in C

#Hannibal #hannigram #interview with the vampire #iwtv #loustat #I know this is a very lukewarm take but I just can’t get over it #I keep thinking of more stuff but I’m too lazy to go back and edit so the caption will be evolving sorry

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Barnaby has service dog characteristics, where he can sense distress and the beginnings of a potential stroke/seizure, and thus provides whatever support he can in response, change my mind—

i can't because i Literally Can't 🫡

#the thing my mind usually goes to when it comes to assigning solidly Dog attributes #is that barnaby is Not a dog #hes a dog shaped puppet #i know im guilty of givin him some little dog things in my scribbles but when seriously considering Him as a Character #from what we know he is very much just a dog in name and appearance #other than that hes a Guy! hes just a funny distinguished fella #he walks on all fours to be closer to his pals not bc its in his nature #you know? #i doubt barnaby would know how to actually act like a real dog if he had to.... #he knows the pun he knows the jokes the bits the Chasing the Mailman thing #but beyond that! he seems like just a guy shaped like a big blue dog! #thank you for listening to my teeny tiny lukewarm not-really analysis #rambles from the bog #i think thats a big part of puppets #theyre shaped like so many things but. theyre Not that thing. #puppets are made liars simply by existing

[regthelionhearted]

I just realized that art heist, baby! is not written by the same person as crimson rivers

#what kind of hallucination triggered this assumption #be so fucking for real #the way I was putting off cr bc the writing in ahb is lukewarm to me #now where’s my excuse #in my defense I’ve not been very active in the fandom for the past year and a half or so #still #marauders #marauders era #james potter #regulus black #hp #jegulus #crimson rivers #zeppazariel #art heist baby

[fannfish]

so im rereading the early shadows house chapters and

like the foreshadowing.

i didnt get it when i first read but it makes sense now, kate is trying to hide that they don't look like each other, while still being very upset about becoming a shadow

god i love this show... well manga you get it..

#foreshadowing #shadows house #shadows house spoilers #kate shadow #kate mirror #if you haven't you should read shadows house #also the manga is better than the anime #here that's my hot take #but its not very hot #so like lukewarm take #i dont even know

[why-the-heck-not]

feeling very Devil Wears Prada "florals? for spring? groundbreaking" seeing the "Taylor's album has emotional range!! No other artist could ever!!!"-posts as if that's not also what every other (good) artist is doing, as if conveying bunch of emotions isn't the whole main part of the job

(emotions? in music??? groundbreaking)

#!!! I'm not hating on Taylor !!! I'm hating on swifties (some of them at least; the delusional ones) #like are u sure no other artist could ever. are u _fully_ sure #anyways I listened to it and it was fine; felt like 31 versions of the same song but I can respect that as a stylistic choice #that's just not for me (like she obv knows what she's doing & is good at it)) #(like Cigarettes After Sex does that too and no one's giving them shit abt it (probs bc ppl are pretty much only lukewarm towards them #and also the whole ''let's be unreasonably critical abt whatever a woman is doing''-thing)) #maybe the range is in the lyrics but I'm more of a ''I want to hear the emotion'' rather than ''I'll look up the lyrics to see what the #emotion of this song is''-type (can't hear lyrics in songs for the life of me without seeing them written out idk why #and that's very much a me-issue; not a ''bad music''-issue) #ttpd #april 2024 #2024

[tonyglowheart]

"Does Shen Qiao even like Yan Wushi?"

I feel like it may be relatively easy for people to pick out "what does Yan Wushi like about Shen Qiao / what does YWS get out of yanshen." but I think a criticism/line of thought I see around is people struggling with "well what does Shen Qiao get out of all of this?" and like, "does SQ even like YWS, what with how YWS annoys him and gets him angry all the time."

But I think that actually is the crux of their relationship, lol. Because if you think about it, to everyone else, Shen Qiao is this lofty ideal, this untouchable immortal/仙, maybe even this obstacle or goal to conquer or shoot down.

Who else treats him casually and teases him and pokes at him to get emotional reactions out of him because they like that about him?

If he wants to seek people who treat him with respect and reverence, he just has to step out into the city square - hell, he just has to travel out and random people he meets are likely to treat him with that sort of dazzled awe or reverence too (we literally see this happen several times in the course of the novel).

So yeah, I think joking not joking, YWS makes him angry and feel Emotions and he likes that, YWS is enrichment for him, YWS pushes his buttons and his boundaries but reframing that it's pushing him out of his comfort zone and like hardening him off to the elements and realities of the world like a gardener with plants out of the greenhouse. But also, YWS treats him like a person, like a man, and not like Shen-daozun, Shen-daozhang, Shen-zhangjiao. To Yan Wushi, Shen Qiao is Shen Qiao. (and he loves to tease the shit out of him hehe (￣▽￣) )

CONVERSELY! This also gives Shen Qiao a space to *be* Shen Qiao. With Yan Wushi, he does not have to be Shen-daozun, Shen-daozhang, Shen-zhangjiao. He does not have to always be magnanimous and generous and a bastion of righteousness. These are in his nature, yet, but it's not ALL of his nature - he is, after all, still a man, a human, with human emotions -- including the full breadth of human emotions. Yes Yan Wushi annoys him and he shows it, but it's specifically BECAUSE of that that they are closer than him and anyone else in the world. He can "be himself" around Yan Wushi, he can get worked up and be petty and be snippy, and it's fine and won't cause catastrophes or undesired splashdown sociopolitical effects.

But also, he (lets himself?) get worked up by Yan Wushi - they HAVE that level of intimate understanding with each other where they can be like this and not have feelings hurt in any irreparable way. This isn't something that SQ does (lets himself do?) with just anyone, which we see throughout the novel reflected in his internal narration and comportment. So really, the fact that he DOES get annoyed with YWS shows that they are on a different, more "real" level with each other than SQ is with anyone else.

And like, they didn't get there in a day, sure, but imo we definitely see through the novel how they get there, so imo, the yanshen relationship is incredibly justified.

(I also say this bc I think literally every "I've connected the two dots" moments I've had in my reread, I would metaphorically flip the page only to be met with that connection I'd made spelled out on the page by MXS lmao. Like... yeah okay MXS *shakes your hand* you know your stuff. oh and also because I do think there may be some level of skepticism about yanshen esp from SQ's side floating around lol, but like... MXS did the legwork! yes chapter 45 happened, yes YWS never "apologizes" with words, but that doesn't mean that they don't share a deep mutual understanding of themselves and each other by the end, nor that they haven't moved past the events of literally 83 chapters ago, 96 if you count the extras -- a whole literal two-thirds of the novel ago. Like, I know we piss on the poor here and many educational systems around the world are in shambles these days, but work on developing reading comprehension skills, pls :') )

(lmao rip this post got long AGAIN. well, hopefully at least some people are reading all of this lol.)

#qian qiu #thousand autumns #qian qiu meta #yan wushi #shen qiao #mood is another great idea by ME dot meme #anyway here is my latest hot take! inspired by a meta post I glanced at from ages ago that I did not actually read properly #bc I think even then I Disagreed with the thoughts on it and thought it was kind of lukewarm lol #when like... I think SQ is also insane for YWS - it's just harder to see if you're approaching it from a conventional kind of interp #and also bc YWS is so much more vocal/ostentatious with his brand of craziness lol #but like. I very much ascribe to the 'actually SQ is like padme amidala' school of thought (that I coined lol) #and it's like. when you let go of 'but who would DO that/think that' and just accept. he does. and what does it say about him #it all starts to make sense #also yes I did this in a sort of long-winded reblog lol but now I'm making it its own post #hopefully this one is a bit more uhh concise than the last one now that my thoughts have percolated and set (as with a mousse) some more

[omgcheez]

Tales of Earthsea is the last Ghibli feature film I have yet to see. I'm gonna try to keep an open mind about it, even though I have only heard bad things about it. I'm not expecting a Spirited Away or Princess Kaguya, but lets see. Depending on how it is, I might watch a little at a time.

I still have to see the TV content and shorts.

#except Earwig but man was that a stinker #ik very lukewarm takes but still

[crow-in-springtime]

Friends I fear I am once again becoming obsessed with a play about siblings, grief, and gay people

#it’s she kills monsters #I saw a production of it with some friends and holy shit #she kills monsters #skm #it just hit so hard especially since I am an older sister who is very different from her younger sister #I called her right after the play ended and tbh I think that was the longest conversation we’ve had without arguing in years #but no the play was good especially act 2. I was kinda lukewarm about it but a2 just brought it all together sooo well #ky’s gallery

[choilacanth]

Made a Pillowfort account, I’m slowly reposting works I like over there. Also raunchy stuff is going up there from time to time since they absolutely allow that. :]

#Pillowfort #Feeling very lukewarm about PF but nobody is married to one single social media place #as of now it still doesn’t supply what I want in a website or function as a tool that helps #But it does supply deez nuts #social media rumble

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"but Israel is the only democracy in the middle east :(" yeah hot take but when a country's government commits a genocide I don't give a fuck about how good their form of government is and you shouldn't either

#diminishing the fucking war crimes of israel bc they're a democracy is such fucking bullshit #also it feels very similar to the lukewarm liberal takes on our 'democracy' & politicians here #'yeah i know they did bad things but the democracy :(' and the bad things are things they're totally going to hell for #free palestine